Taylor's [Taylor, J. (2003). Risk-taking behavior in mutual fund tournaments, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation 50, 373–383] extension of the tournament model of Brown et al. [Brown, K. C., Harlow, W. V., & Starks, L. T. (1996). Of tournaments and temptations: An analysis of managerial incentives in themutual fund industry, Journal of Finance 15, 85–110] proposes that using an exogenous (endogenous) benchmark, will induce losing (winning) managers to gamble. This presents two competing testable hypotheses that are investigated in the current study. We use a sample period covering 1989 to 2001 of Australian multi-sector growth funds. We apply the non-parametric Cross-ProductRatiomethodology. Generally,we find evidence in support of Taylor's model.